Tim, You might like to ask them to provide you with a list of geodata they hold and that they can release (under the PSMA) without any restrictions. I got such a list off Southwark Council and it gave me a few ideas of data that would be useful including trees and cycle parking stands.
Tom On 22 May 2011 11:11, TimSC <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I met people from Kent's OpenKent, which is a county council open data > initiative [1][2]. They explained their work and I told them about > openstreetmap and its community. They said Kent is not as well developed in > open data as some councils but they have a long term commitment to > improvement. They have some data sets available but they seem to be mainly > concerned with expenses, census data and school expenditure so far. They > said they are seeking ideas of what data to publish because they need to > prioritize their effort in getting the data for which there is a public > demand. If you have ideas, I suggest you get in touch. I expect other > councils have already done stuff that's interesting and it might be worth > making them aware. They also plan to showcase interesting data > visualisations based on their data or any Kent related data. It might be > good to get publicity for small projects. OpenKent is also seeking ideas and > feedback for a (web based?) data visualisation tool they are planning to > help the (non-technical) public use the data. > > I tried to think of data that would be useful to mappers. Obviously the > rights of way data would be amazing. The council also holds the parish > boundaries data. Some government data sets use parish and electoral > boundaries as their areas, so that would be useful to do visualisations. > Also the Kent Heritage Tree Project [3] might like the parish boundaries, as > apparently many old trees are on or near these boundaries. Having lists of > public institutions, possibly with addresses, would be great to validate the > OSM database. We can quickly find any schools, public services that we > missed. I suspect we will avoid doing imports of data which is not really > GIS but we might add data to OSM to make visualisations and mash ups easier > (machine tags and data to link to their database rows). > > Again, they said they would appreciate any ideas. I talked to Noel Hatch > and Matthew Kerr. Get in touch with them. :) > > Regards, > > TimSC > > [1] http://www.kent.gov.uk/your_council/open_data.aspx > [2] http://openkent.blogspot.com/ > [3] http://kentheritagetrees.btcv.org.uk/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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